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Stopping HIV Without a Vaccine
Season 1 · Episode 131

Stopping HIV Without a Vaccine

What's Your Problem?

March 13, 202527m 56s

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Show Notes

Jared Baeten is senior vice president in virology at Gilead Sciences. Jared's problem is this: In a world without a vaccine, how do you make a medicine that people will actually take to help prevent HIV?

There’s already a daily pill that reduces the risk of getting HIV, but a majority of people who are at high risk are unwilling or unable to take it.

So Jared and his colleagues are developing a new drug, lenacapivir, designed to be given as a shot once every six months.

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